[David Bogie]

Buy Stephen Smith’s DVD from the cow.
Search google for MOTION TUTORIALS and filter carefully.
and go here:
https://www.applemotion.net/

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

If you have to rotate the layer at all you must scale to hide the edges.
If there is severe vertical movement, you must scale to hide the edges.
If you cannot bear to scale to hide the edges you must find another way to mask the movement.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Precompose, apply wiggle to the position.
Or, precompose and apply wiggle to the camera.

Wiggle can be done using expressions or the wiggle animation helper. Pop open the AE help system and explore them to decide which might work better.

You will also need lots of motion blur.

And search this forum or other AE user sites for EARTHQUAKE.

bogiean

[David Bogie]

Try this:
Apply horizontal only blur. Takes a bit of tweaking to simulate a swish because you may need to select a blur filter that has an origin point.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Your light is not pointing at the object.
Open the position property for the object.
Open the Point of interest for the light. Make them the same and the light will be pointing at the object.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Right.
You would need to find a copy of Brian’s original Atomic Energy filter training or the AE4 series from Total Training. You might try their website to see if any archival stuff is available.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

I was thinking Shatter.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Brian Maffitt actually did this in an early tutorial for his wonderful Shatter plugin.

He went to a subdivision and carefully match-photographed as many homes as he could find in various stages of construction. Then he built a composite image of different masked layers, rendered them as standalone movies with alphas, and applied Shatter in various shapes as appropriate to the details being destroyed. Big horizontal rectangles for the siding, smaller rectangles for the roofing shingles, glass for the, umm, windows, really small hexagons for stuff in the yard.
It was lovely ad not very complicated.

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Walter and Chris, your posts (“We use ProRes all the time”) has me all confused. We are an exclusively DV house for budget reasons but using ProRes has simply never occurred to me. Got a pointer to a site that would give me more than the basic information (I mean, besides the manual, been there, read that, made a t-shirt out of the Text chapters)?

bogiesan

[David Bogie]

Ryan, we all had to stat someplace, welcome to the family.

The Canon DSLR’s video capabilities is a huge meme on hundreds of Canon user and amateur video forums. Just put the model # into google and get ready for a few hours of patient reading.

The ProLost site not for beginners because the author, über-shooter/effects maven Stu Maschwtiz, presumes you are at least a competent photographer and at least an experienced video editor but this is an excellent resource:

prolost.com/og

And, Ryan, you could make a delightfully valuable contribution to the community by carefully composing your experiences into a competent post. Your real world experience will help the thousands of Canon DSLR users who will come after you seeking the same information.

bogiesan